{"id":1113,"date":"2007-04-01T09:23:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T14:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/01\/techmeme-cleans-up-your-language\/"},"modified":"2007-04-01T09:23:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T14:23:55","slug":"techmeme-cleans-up-your-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/01\/techmeme-cleans-up-your-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Techmeme cleans up your language"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has anyone else noticed that all of the headlines in the Techmeme blog swarm<\/a> about Mike Arrington’s great April Fool’s Day post (which I wrote about — along with some other recent pranks — here<\/a>) have been edited to insert asterisks in the name FuckedCompany? I didn’t really notice until late yesterday, and then realized that it wasn’t just the main headline with Mike’s post, but every subsequent link as well. <\/p>\n

What’s up with that, Gabe? Surely we are all adults, and can tolerate the use of that great old Anglo-Saxon word, no? Unless Techmeme.com has a large readership among the kindergarten set that I don’t know about. After all, it’s not as though everyone doesn’t know what those two asterisks stand for. Or is there some other Google-search related reason — do headlines with expletives get marked differently by the algorithm?<\/p>\n

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Has anyone else noticed that all of the headlines in the Techmeme blog swarm about Mike Arrington’s great April Fool’s Day post (which I wrote about — along with some other recent pranks — here) have been edited to insert asterisks in the name FuckedCompany? I didn’t really notice until late yesterday, and then realized … <\/p>\n

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